“There comes a time when a country has to decide that it cannot take any more, that enough is enough and action has to be taken” Mark Sofer Israel’s Ambassador to India.“India will have to make its own decisions regarding that. As a foreign country, we are no one to say what India should do. And of course, no two situations are exactly alike,” he said, but added that Israel had a very sympathetic view of the difficult situation that India was facing.
“India lives in a shocking neighbourhood, very much like Israel. It is not easy being in such a neighbourhood. That is why Israel has stood steadfast by India during and after the Mumbai terror attacks. We hardly even changed our travel advisory,” he said.
Talking about the commando operation in Mumbai, especially at the Nariman House in which Israeli citizens were killed by the attackers, Sofer tried to dispel the perception that his country was critical of the operation. “The operation by the Indian forces was nothing less than heroic. They staked their own lives for saving those of others. We have nothing but the highest praise and appreciation for them for the manner in which they carried out this extremely complicated and complex operation,” he said.
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